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... introducing the wx gene from a Thai cultivar, Col. No. 15, into a Japanese cultivar, Sasanishiki, in Asian cultivated rice. These weak plants were characterized by poor growth and discoloration at the tillering stage, but they were fertile. Hybrid breakdown, which is defined as hybrid weakness and s ...
... introducing the wx gene from a Thai cultivar, Col. No. 15, into a Japanese cultivar, Sasanishiki, in Asian cultivated rice. These weak plants were characterized by poor growth and discoloration at the tillering stage, but they were fertile. Hybrid breakdown, which is defined as hybrid weakness and s ...
Create a Face Lab - McCarter Biology
... Why do people look so different from each other? Even close relatives often look very different from each other. This happens because a very large variety of traits exist in the human population and new variations are created as humans reproduce. Remember during meiosis there can be reshuffling and ...
... Why do people look so different from each other? Even close relatives often look very different from each other. This happens because a very large variety of traits exist in the human population and new variations are created as humans reproduce. Remember during meiosis there can be reshuffling and ...
The Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer I: A Model of Family
... known to disable the gene product. Different mutations might have different outcomes, so the mere presence of a mutation does not determine the risk, although most studies to date assume that it does (as do we). This assumption will be capable of refinement in due course, probably when the precise s ...
... known to disable the gene product. Different mutations might have different outcomes, so the mere presence of a mutation does not determine the risk, although most studies to date assume that it does (as do we). This assumption will be capable of refinement in due course, probably when the precise s ...
Chapter 16 Outline
... Shortly after the onset of infection, Hershey and Chase spun the cultured infected cells in a blender, shaking loose any parts of the phage that remained outside the bacteria. o The mixtures were spun in a centrifuge, which separated the heavier bacterial cells in the pellet from the lighter free ph ...
... Shortly after the onset of infection, Hershey and Chase spun the cultured infected cells in a blender, shaking loose any parts of the phage that remained outside the bacteria. o The mixtures were spun in a centrifuge, which separated the heavier bacterial cells in the pellet from the lighter free ph ...
Mechanisms of Heredity Sex
... Have you ever seen a calico cat? It has areas of black and areas of yellow on its coat. This coloring is caused by a pair of alleles (B = black and b = yellow) that combine to give Bb = calico. This trait is also sex-linked, which means that the genes for this trait appear only on the X chromosome. ...
... Have you ever seen a calico cat? It has areas of black and areas of yellow on its coat. This coloring is caused by a pair of alleles (B = black and b = yellow) that combine to give Bb = calico. This trait is also sex-linked, which means that the genes for this trait appear only on the X chromosome. ...
Selection and inheritance of sexually dimorphic juvenile plumage
... scrub-jays are despotic cooperative breeders with limited opportunities to acquire breeding territories. When individuals do acquire breeding territories, it is near their natal territory, with dispersal distances of one territory length being most common (Woolfenden and Fitzpatrick 1984). Because o ...
... scrub-jays are despotic cooperative breeders with limited opportunities to acquire breeding territories. When individuals do acquire breeding territories, it is near their natal territory, with dispersal distances of one territory length being most common (Woolfenden and Fitzpatrick 1984). Because o ...
66 Patterns in Pedigrees
... If you completed Activity 46, “Disease Fighters,” in Unit C, “Cell Biology and Disease,” you learned about the ABO blood groups. You saw that people with some blood types have an immune reaction to blood of certain other types; they cannot be given transfusions of these incompatible blood types. I ...
... If you completed Activity 46, “Disease Fighters,” in Unit C, “Cell Biology and Disease,” you learned about the ABO blood groups. You saw that people with some blood types have an immune reaction to blood of certain other types; they cannot be given transfusions of these incompatible blood types. I ...
Alfred Henry Sturtevant - National Academy of Sciences
... age map. He and others had noticed, however, that excessive variation in the amount of crossing-over sometimes occurs. The factors responsible were isolated by Sturtevant and by Muller around 1915 and were shown to act as dominant cross-over suppressors. The first clue to the nature of these factors ...
... age map. He and others had noticed, however, that excessive variation in the amount of crossing-over sometimes occurs. The factors responsible were isolated by Sturtevant and by Muller around 1915 and were shown to act as dominant cross-over suppressors. The first clue to the nature of these factors ...
DNA Replication
... 3' to 5' exonuclease (proof-reading activity) 5' to 3' exonuclease (repair activity) ...
... 3' to 5' exonuclease (proof-reading activity) 5' to 3' exonuclease (repair activity) ...
Why Are There Two Sexes? - Millersville University
... & those genes are perpetuated in all of its descendants 2. An organism that reproduces sexually dilutes its genes with those of another, thus reducing representation of its own genes in future generations; this seems like pointless self-sacrifice B. If a single parthenogenetically reproducing female ...
... & those genes are perpetuated in all of its descendants 2. An organism that reproduces sexually dilutes its genes with those of another, thus reducing representation of its own genes in future generations; this seems like pointless self-sacrifice B. If a single parthenogenetically reproducing female ...
Tools for Comparing Bacterial Genomes
... around 1.2 Mbp, which is strongly curved and easily melted, and is slightly more AT rich than the rest of the genome. Here, the important carbon-monoxide dehydrogenase gene locus is present, as are multiple transposases, which could be an indication of horizontally acquired DNA. The genome is relati ...
... around 1.2 Mbp, which is strongly curved and easily melted, and is slightly more AT rich than the rest of the genome. Here, the important carbon-monoxide dehydrogenase gene locus is present, as are multiple transposases, which could be an indication of horizontally acquired DNA. The genome is relati ...
Sauk Prairie Veterinary Clinic, SC
... decreased fertility in the breed. They have found that the defect is located on the FANCI (Fanconi anemia complementation-group I) gene. The defect, called Brachyspina Syndrome (BS), can manifest itself in more than one way. Some of these BS calves are born alive but are deformed and grow poorly. Th ...
... decreased fertility in the breed. They have found that the defect is located on the FANCI (Fanconi anemia complementation-group I) gene. The defect, called Brachyspina Syndrome (BS), can manifest itself in more than one way. Some of these BS calves are born alive but are deformed and grow poorly. Th ...
When replication travels on damaged templates: bumps and blocks
... uvrC genes of E. coli are required to initiate nucleotide excision repair of UV-induced DNA lesions (reviewed in [56]). E. coli strains mutated in any one of these genes are unable to remove UV-induced lesions from DNA, exhibit elevated levels of recombination and lethality, and are associated with ...
... uvrC genes of E. coli are required to initiate nucleotide excision repair of UV-induced DNA lesions (reviewed in [56]). E. coli strains mutated in any one of these genes are unable to remove UV-induced lesions from DNA, exhibit elevated levels of recombination and lethality, and are associated with ...
Curriculum Vitae - Baranzini Lab - University of California, San
... and layer disorganization phenotypes in Rs1htmgc1 mice.” The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA, May 2007 Johnson BA, Ikeda S, Pinto LH, Ikeda A. “Aberrant Synaptic Localization and Schisis Caused by a Splice-Site Mutation in the Rs1h Gene.” The ...
... and layer disorganization phenotypes in Rs1htmgc1 mice.” The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA, May 2007 Johnson BA, Ikeda S, Pinto LH, Ikeda A. “Aberrant Synaptic Localization and Schisis Caused by a Splice-Site Mutation in the Rs1h Gene.” The ...
2.3 Bombardment of detached potato leaves and confocal
... tightly linked to the Nb locus and characterised the PVX elicitor of the Nb-mediated response. In the high resolution genetical map described above, we positioned the Nb locus in an interval of approximately 0.76 cM between the AFLP markers GM339 and GM637 (Fig. 2A). Given that the average recombina ...
... tightly linked to the Nb locus and characterised the PVX elicitor of the Nb-mediated response. In the high resolution genetical map described above, we positioned the Nb locus in an interval of approximately 0.76 cM between the AFLP markers GM339 and GM637 (Fig. 2A). Given that the average recombina ...
2001_butterfield_THE SUGARCANE GENOME
... Hybrids may show an effective increase in monoploid number and genome duplication The differences in chromosome structure between the two progenitor species and pairing behaviour reviewed above suggest that in Saccharum spp. hybrids, the ‘hybrid monoploid number’ is likely to be greater than ten. Th ...
... Hybrids may show an effective increase in monoploid number and genome duplication The differences in chromosome structure between the two progenitor species and pairing behaviour reviewed above suggest that in Saccharum spp. hybrids, the ‘hybrid monoploid number’ is likely to be greater than ten. Th ...
Activating the MSH2/MSH6 Apoptotic Pathway in Cancer Cells
... highly regulated process. This essential stage in the lifecycle of a cell is regulated by a suite of proteins that, collectively, unwind the DNA to be replicated, replicate the parent DNA, and terminate the replicative process once the daughter strands have been successfully polymerized (Frouin, Mon ...
... highly regulated process. This essential stage in the lifecycle of a cell is regulated by a suite of proteins that, collectively, unwind the DNA to be replicated, replicate the parent DNA, and terminate the replicative process once the daughter strands have been successfully polymerized (Frouin, Mon ...
Mendel`s Experiments:
... Every plant has two copies of the gene for each characteristic. These two copies are called alleles ...
... Every plant has two copies of the gene for each characteristic. These two copies are called alleles ...
The niche construction perspective
... Abstract. The vibrancy of the field of evolution and human behaviour belies the fact that the majority of social scientists are deeply unhappy with evolutionary accounts of human behaviour. In part, this reflects a problem within evolutionary biology: neo-Darwinism fails to recognize a fundamental c ...
... Abstract. The vibrancy of the field of evolution and human behaviour belies the fact that the majority of social scientists are deeply unhappy with evolutionary accounts of human behaviour. In part, this reflects a problem within evolutionary biology: neo-Darwinism fails to recognize a fundamental c ...
Multifactorial Traits - U
... brown, or black eyes make increasingly more melanin in the iris. Unlike melanin in skin melanocytes, the pigment in the eye tends to stay in the cell that produces it. If there is such a thing as a purely polygenic trait—that is, one caused by genes but not the environment— then eye color might be a ...
... brown, or black eyes make increasingly more melanin in the iris. Unlike melanin in skin melanocytes, the pigment in the eye tends to stay in the cell that produces it. If there is such a thing as a purely polygenic trait—that is, one caused by genes but not the environment— then eye color might be a ...
Considerations for Analyzing Targeted NGS Data – HLA
... Lots of similar genes and lots of very similar pseudegenes. Duplicated segments can be more similar to each other within an individual than they are similar to the corresponding segments of the reference genome. ...
... Lots of similar genes and lots of very similar pseudegenes. Duplicated segments can be more similar to each other within an individual than they are similar to the corresponding segments of the reference genome. ...
Mitosis in Drosophila development - Journal of Cell Science
... does not take place, centrosomes continue to replicate. In the field of anaphase figures from wild-type embryos (Fig. 1, panels A and B), single centrosomes can be seen at spindle poles. This is in contrast to the two fields irom gnu embryos, one with a developing giant nucleus (panels C and D) and ...
... does not take place, centrosomes continue to replicate. In the field of anaphase figures from wild-type embryos (Fig. 1, panels A and B), single centrosomes can be seen at spindle poles. This is in contrast to the two fields irom gnu embryos, one with a developing giant nucleus (panels C and D) and ...
The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish
... RNA was re-suspended in water. P. nyererei: 9 tissues (brain, eye, gills, heart, kidney, muscle, ovary, skin and testis) were isolated from three individuals inbred for ∼ 5 generations in the laboratory of Dr. Ole Seehausen (Eawag, Switzerland). Tissues were harvested immediately after sacrificing f ...
... RNA was re-suspended in water. P. nyererei: 9 tissues (brain, eye, gills, heart, kidney, muscle, ovary, skin and testis) were isolated from three individuals inbred for ∼ 5 generations in the laboratory of Dr. Ole Seehausen (Eawag, Switzerland). Tissues were harvested immediately after sacrificing f ...
Incontinentia Pigmenti
... Male with incontinentia pigmenti There are several possible explanations of IP in male.3,4 The patients may have Klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY karotype) or 46, XY/47, XXY mosaicism. For the normal 46, XY male, it may be due to either half chromatid mutation or genetic heterogeneity. Half chromatid m ...
... Male with incontinentia pigmenti There are several possible explanations of IP in male.3,4 The patients may have Klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY karotype) or 46, XY/47, XXY mosaicism. For the normal 46, XY male, it may be due to either half chromatid mutation or genetic heterogeneity. Half chromatid m ...